The Day of the Lord

When does the church meet her Lord — and what should we expect before that moment?
For nearly two centuries, the pretribulational rapture has offered a reassuring answer: the church will be gone before the hard things come. But what if that comfort rests on assumptions the biblical text does not sustain?
In The Day of the Lord, Christoph Labuschagne traces a careful path through the prophetic landscape — Daniel's seventieth week, the Olivet Discourse, the structure of Revelation, the identity of the restrainer, and the mechanics of the rapture in Paul's letters — to show that Scripture draws a sharp distinction between tribulation and wrath.
The Great Tribulation is Satan's assault on the people of God. The Day of the Lord is God's judgment on a world that rejected His Son. The church endures the first; she is delivered before the second.
Written for pastors, small-group leaders, and believers who want to follow the argument rather than simply repeat a tradition, this book builds the pre-wrath case through positive demonstration, engages competing positions with fairness, and asks the question that matters…